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rodin and neil gaiman...

I did my shift at the legion of honor museum this afternoon - it was organ recital day. the pipe organ at the legion is beautiful. Today's program was baroque - and beautiful. It was remarkable to watch how hearing the pipe organ echo down the hallways - changed the entire way people moved, experienced and interacted with the art. Then a large - and I'm talking HUGE - probably 100+ guests wedding party showed up - and I watched a wedding from the back of the courtyard. Weddings tear me up - such beautiful over the top rituals. Everyone in burgundy - everyone wearing a matching orange rose. The entire event was spoken in mandarin or chinese. but now I'm home and I'm just finishing a viewing of Neil Gaiman and The Jim Henson company's fantasy film MIRRORMASK.... what a bizarre visual journey.

the "close to you" sequence:

some things are true whether you believe in them or not.....

I like that I'm a sensitive guy - that romantic movies make me cry.

There are a few that everytime I watch; make me cry.

I'm watching "City of Angels" with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage. and from the very beginning where Cage's character (an angel) walks away with the little girl who says her favorite part of being alive is "pajamas - flannel - with feet" I know the movie was a critical mess and all that - but when I'm in a snuggled on the couch with my terrier mood. It's a favorite to watch. Scenes like walking through the library - and listening to the people read in their minds - where a man is reading Hemingway's THE MOVEABLE FEAST - Nicolas Cage is so beautiful in this film - he speaks so deliberately - and softly. and his eyes - omg - his eyes are so soft. then her scene in the bath making out with a rolling rock beer. yes sir. It is a such a modern take on the role of angels might take in our lives. I know it's soppy and I know it's manipulative. this movie is also one of the reasons I love pears. and it has a tender score written by Gabriel Yared.

Top Five BobSob Movies?

1. Children of A Lesser God
2. The Colour Purple
3. City of Angels
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
5. Everything is Illuminated.

thank you for making me feel like I'm not alone tonight